Protest and counter-protest: An interactive timeline of the civil unrest in Venezuela

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Follow the progression of events showing how student protests have newly ignited the embers of divisive politics in Venezuela

Erin Woycik
19 March 2014

When students organised country-wide protests on 12 February 2014 to bring to light issues of security and the detentions of university students at earlier demonstrations, no-one could have predicted that Venezuela would have been thrown into more than a month of violence and heavy-handed repression. As the demonstrations pass the one-month mark, questions remain unanswered: Has the government lost control? Is anyone winning? When will it end?

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